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- Pretty much everything that occurs in The Machine is a fictionalized extended riff on the train heist story, although there are flashbacks to Kreischer’s college days that reference true events.
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The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Nov 29, 2001 · Fans of Robert Aldrich's movies have always been divided over "The Mean Machine" (aka "The Longest Yard"). Is it the fruition of the director's cynical promise - as evidenced in films like...
May 26, 2023 · “The Machine” was a story Kreischer would tell at parties, backstage, or in meetings for years, but he’d never do it onstage. That was until 2011, when he told it on The Joe Rogan Experience...
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May 23, 2023 · Your new movie is a clear example of authentic storytelling based on your viral bit “The Machine,” loosely based a true story about robbing a train in Russia as a college student with the...
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The Mean Machine is a film directed by Robert Aldrich with Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad .... Year: 1974. Original title: The Longest Yard. Synopsis: In this rough-and tumble movie, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies.
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Mean Machine is an English reworking of Robert Aldrich's 1974 beefcake Burt Reynolds starrer, The Longest Yard. Substituting Gridiron for Soccer, director Barry Skolnick, along with his roll call of British "faces", is only aiming for one market.
Based on the 1974 American football movie - which starred the notorious W.I.G. (Burt Reynolds) - this modern day version sees soccer's favourite hardman play Danny 'Mean Machine' Meeham.
